Raider Increase?

[Aotrs Commander]

Is it just me being unlucky or something, but since the new patch/DLC, the number and strength of raiders (as it now includes some hosts) appears to have increased a lot. (I did, admittedly add in Horse Lords when I added in Reaper's.)

Normal, intended/fix or glitch anyone know?

 

[Gamengervi]

To me, it seemed like I'm being raided less than usual when playing in the English Isles. Cognitive bias, perhaps.

 

[Aotrs Commander]

I could be just lucky, but as soon as I started playing post patch, I got a boatload of viking hosts raiding me (on top of the usual raiding parties). As Rome, I do kinda have a lot of coast for them to be raiding, but I don't recall seeing so many ant once before (at one point, I had about five seperare raids at once.)

Could be, I suppose, if the patch verses old-version save went a bit screwy with raid-failure time-out... But I don't remember getting raided by big hosts before.

 

[Aotrs Commander]

Okay, I actually tried playing again (try being the operative word, but I think I'm basically SOL until the sans-Conclave education glitch is fixed, unfortunately).

I am constantly raided - I mean, like, CONSTANTLY. I counted on my character screen - fifteen hosts all having recently raided me. (I have progressed no more than three years post-patch.) Which is WAAAY more raiding than I was getting pre-2.6.

Is anyone else having this? Is this how it's supposed to be (i.e. did they fix anything in the pacth) or what?

 

[Balkri]

I'm playing as a norse pagan.
And apparently the requirements to "settle" or stop being Tribal have been increased (absolute tribal authority as a minimun).
That alone is making, especially for the AI, leaving the elective gavelkind behind a bit more dificult. This in the long run, combined with lots of small "duke" lv lords with concubines, is generating a lot of "landless" people with claims, that turn into adventurers and sail out mostly to raid...

Since i'm from their same religion they normaly don't stay in my territory, but France and the Muslims in Spain are getting big rading host constanlly

 

[Aotrs Commander]

Right. So it is perhaps design as intended - to some extent - rather than a bug.

Once they fix the education issue (I really hope it won't take the too long!), guess I'll just have Conquer Faster and snag all the pagan coasts...